Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [vb past] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , other employees who had gone to the canteen on commencing a shift had not been dismissed and none of them knew that they risked that penalty . |
| 2 | I wonder how many of them knew that they would find a barren world , a place of death , of cold … no magic in Lavondyss … and yet the memory is there . |
| 3 | This , at least , is the view of Gair ( 1978 ) , who reports that a Gallup Poll in May 1978 showed that 40 per cent of Americans did not know that the United States imported oil at all , and that hardly any of them knew that it imported about half its crude oil and refined products at that time . |
| 4 | None of them knew that she had been with the FBI for two years , where she had specialized in the use of firearms , before joining UNACO three years ago . |
| 5 | Or it may have been that , looking at that blueprint form , some of them saw that something more could be done with it . |
| 6 | By the end of the day , many of them said that they had not talked to so many people since the last Newbury Rally ! |
| 7 | So this fact ( that they were not being totally myopic ) accounted for the fact that , despite their poor ability to get the myopically optimal production level right ( which is what many of them said that they were trying to do ) , they almost did as well ( in terms of realized profit ) as the myopic strategy . |
| 8 | ‘ Some of them figured that I played Headless Horseman on bass — y'know … the weirdest concepts ! |
| 9 | of them revealed that they had been the victims of marital rape . |
| 10 | Many of them believed that they were failing to find jobs because they were too old and a large number of the older respondents had become reconciled to the prospect of never working again . |
| 11 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 12 | Some of them believed that it would be brought about by an ideal representative of God , an anointed one , a Messiah ( see chapter 8 ) . |
| 13 | of them believed that recession would get worse under a Labour Government , and not one of them believed that it would get better . |
| 14 | One of them dreamed that he was the mayor of a town in Australia . |
| 15 | Quite a few of them thought that they could . |
| 16 | Some of them added that they thought the TBC paid too little attention to the speeches of politicians : this was to be a frequent complaint . |
| 17 | Both of them realised that he had abandoned all pretence that Sally-Anne was an ordinary young woman come to work in Vetch Street , but neither of them pursued the matter , Dr Neil from delicacy , and Sally-Anne because she could not tell him the real truth about herself — he would undoubtedly immediately send her back to the embassy , and she did not want that at all — it would be failure . |
| 18 | None of them doubted that they would eventually get to Greece . |
| 19 | A group of Puritans who felt that the Church of England was too close to the Roman Catholic Church had left England and gone to the Netherlands ; they noticed with regret that their children were becoming Dutch in speech and habits , and some of them decided that their best prospect of remaining both godly and English was to get in touch with the Plymouth merchants , obtain from them financial support and the legal right to found a colony , and go somewhere in America where English bishops would not interfere with them . |
| 20 | In fact some of them swore that they saw a phantom train roaring into or out of Box Hill Tunnel ; of course the sceptics laughed their heads off at such a far-fetched tale but the more psychic were inclined to accept the men 's story . |
| 21 | ‘ Some of you heard that I had tested positive for HIV , the virus that causes AIDS . |
| 22 | Not one of you noticed that I dipped this finger into the samples but licked another one . |
| 23 | Some of you thought that you had problems with the R5 commentators … you were lucky , I had to put up with norman hunter on BBC radio Leeds . |
| 24 | The social worker might hold that the client 's general conduct towards him indicated that she would not object to this action ( implied consent ) ; that he carried out the act in good faith as to its consolatory and therapeutic implication ; or ( perhaps less validly ) that the relationship was sufficiently close to allow a gesture of endearment without sexual implication or threatening content . |
| 25 | As I followed her up the pathway , every inch of her breathed that she was being a good girl , and as the driver settled her in the front seat beside him she gave him a happy smile ; almost , one felt — seeing the hat-boxes and cases piled up behind them — they might have been starting out on their honeymoon . |
| 26 | Some secret part of him wished that he could , because in that recognisably human act of revulsion , his own humanity would be reaffirmed . |
| 27 | A divorced friend of mine said that it took her about a year to reach the breakthrough . |
| 28 | She loathed herself for such pettiness , but she was so helplessly without any control over their relationship that pride or all that remained of it demanded that she administer these little pricks to his satisfaction , although she knew she had no hope of succeeding in puncturing it properly . |
| 29 | I recall the gist of it implied that they could n't sit there sunbathing too long if they wanted to get through all seven tops . |
| 30 | This time last year , most of us believed that we were on the threshold of a new era of peace and co-operation in international affairs . |